{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-dental-charges-amendment-regulations-2008/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/547",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Dental Charges) Amendment Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-dental-charges-amendment-regulations-2008",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the National Health Service (Dental Charges) Regulations 2005 (“the Dental Charges Regulations”) (S.I. 2005/3477).\nRegulation 3(2) of these Regulations amends regulation 4 of the Dental Charges Regulations (calculation of charges) by increasing by approximately 2.1% the applicable charge payable for a course of treatment, if none of the exemptions from charging apply.\nRegulation 3(3) amends the reference to veneers in the list of appliances for which a Band 3 charge may be made and recovered in Schedule 3 to the Dental Charges Regulations to clarify that only laboratory fabricated veneers may be used.\nA full Impact Assessment has not been produced for this Instrument as it has no impact on the cost of business, charities or voluntary bodies.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/547/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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